U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota Republican, has an uncanny knack for making almost each of her public utterances more foolish than the one before. Take, for example, her LATEST INTERPRETATION of our national charter: While speaking with conservative host Lars Larson, Bachmann said that gay people have “so bullied the American people and they have so intimidated politicians that politicians fear them and they think they get to dictate the agenda everywhere. Well, not with the Constitution you don’t.” Though almost perfect, her next...

Just when you thought that a certain Republican lawmaker from Minnesota might quietly fade away in these waning months of her bizarre congressional career, she suddenly comes up with something like THIS: Rep. Michelle Bachmann has a new theory about the unaccompanied minors fleeing violence in Central America who have come in large numbers to the southern U.S. border: they are future victims of a liberal plot to use unwilling children for medical experiments… “Now President Obama is trying to bring all of those foreign nationals,...

An even better picker-upper than my first cup of coffee this morning was my discovery of THIS NEWS STORY: Though set to retire from the U.S. House after her term expires at the end of this year, Michele Bachmann may not be done with electoral politics. The Minnesota congresswoman and 2012 Republican presidential candidate told RealClearPolitics on Tuesday that she is considering a second White House run…. “The only thing that the media has speculated on is that it’s going to be various men that are running,” she replied. “They haven’t...

Neil Cavuto of Fox News Channel is never going to be mistaken for a reincarnation of Walter Cronkite or Edward R. Murrow. For a brief moment or two today, however, Cavuto waxed uncharacteristically reasonable, as we see HERE: Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto blasted Republicans on Wednesday for preparing to file a federal lawsuit challenging the executive actions of President Barack Obama. During an interview with Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Cavuto belittled the effort as “an enormous waste of effort” and “a political football,” suggesting that...

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota Republican, will be leaving Congress at the end of the current term, but it remains to be seen if that will put an end to the public pronouncements with which she has been keeping political fact-checkers busy in recent years. Indeed, Bachmann’s penchant for peddling falsehoods actually has been a big part of her fame, as we see HERE: [F]act-checker Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post noted on Tuesday that with Bachmann’s retirement, he’ll lose some of his best material: “As...